Tag: Election 2018

Jacob OglesNovember 5, 2018
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Early voting will continue up to the day before Election Day in six counties still recovering from Hurricane Michael. Polling locations remain open in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, and Jackson counties, all of which sustained major damage. The state extended the early-voting deadline in those counties. Secretary of State Ken Detzner, Florida’s chief elections […]

Joe HendersonNovember 5, 2018
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The pundits got it wrong on Florida’s midterm elections. With Election Day dead ahead, it’s not so much about the choice of Democrat Andrew Gillum’s progressive agenda in the Governor’s race against the conservatism of Republican Ron DeSantis. Nor, in the U.S. Senate race, are voters deciding Rick Scott’s pro-jobs record against Bill Nelson’s approach to the […]

Jacob OglesNovember 4, 2018
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Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio will spend Monday urging voters to support GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis at events across the state. Lara Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, also will join the Republican leaders at multiple stops. Rubio, a former state House Speaker, burst onto the national scene in 2010 with his first run for […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 3, 2018
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Ahead of his final GOTV rally for Gov. Rick Scott‘s Senate campaign Saturday in Pensacola, President Donald Trump whetted appetites with tweets bemoaning incumbent Bill Nelson‘s failure to reach out and ask the White House for help. Trump’s tweets echo complaints the President made about Nelson at his Halloween rally in Estero. “I am here a lot and I […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 2, 2018
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A controversy Gov. Rick Scott likely didn’t want to deal with in the closing days of his Senate campaign: Birthright citizenship. But on Friday, that controversy landed on Scott’s doorstep, with Sen. Lindsey Graham on the campaign trail with his fellow Republican. The South Carolina U.S. senator is pushing a key point in President Donald Trump‘s agenda: Moving […]


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